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Monday, June 20, 2016

L.G. Keltner is the bomb

Howdy, y'all! I've got another exciting author announcement. This time it's a cover reveal for L.G. Keltner's new book:

Cover Art: L.G. Keltner and Jamon Wallker

This 25 K bundle of fun is YA/holiday/humor with a release date of June 28, 2016. Now for the blurb:

Dani Finklemeier has self-published her guide to taking over
the world, but she still isn’t rich. Now
she’s eighteen, still babysitting for money, and looking forward to starting
college in the fall.

Of course, she has to survive a 4th of July
outing with her family first.That’s a
challenging prospect considering she has to be in close proximity with a group
of cousins known as The Fallible Four.As if that weren’t enough, she also has to deal with the fallout of her
parents learning more about her relationship with her boyfriend Seth than she
ever wanted them to know.

The good news is that, if she survives this holiday, she’ll
have plenty of material for another self-help book.

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Want more good news? You don't have to wait until June 28 to meet Dani. How to Survive a Bombardment with Minimal Injuryis a sequel to Self-Help 101 or How I Learned To Take Over The World Through Tolerating My Family.

Here is my five-star review: This was a quick, fun read. Dani (teenager) has to endure Christmas in a small house with 9 members of her family. It immediately brought to mind National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, although the level of zaniness is toned down enough so that you could easily imagine these characters as real people. The older relatives are judgmental and just plain mental. The middle age ones carry on psychological warfare with each other, and the young ones hide in various rooms to stay out of the way. The subplot of Dani falling in love with her best friend, Seth, was very sweet. The premise of Dani composing a self-help book in which she rewrites the insanity going on around her as tips for taking over the world actually works well. I loved the surprise twist at the end involving Great Aunt Ruth Ann.

The new book is available for pre-order at both Amazon or Smashwords. You can find Self-Help 101: How I Learned To Take Over The World By Tolerating My Family here:

About a month after writing that review, I found out I'd be a co-author with L.G. in the IWSG speculative fiction anthology Parallels: Felix Was Here. (It's a small world after all.) Here's a little more information about this versatile writer.

Bio: L.G. Keltnerspends most of her time trying to write while
also cleaning up after her crazy but wonderful kids and hanging out with her
husband.Her favorite genre of all time
is science fiction, and she’s been trying to write novels since the age of
six.Needless to say, those earliest
attempts weren’t all that good.

Her non-writing hobbies include astronomy and
playing Trivial Pursuit.

Have you met L.G. through blogging or whatnot? Read anything funny lately?(For a chance to win my short story collection, Heart Stopper and Other Stories, click on over to Crystal Collier's blog. At the bottom is her two truths and one lie game. Today is the last day to vote.)

Thank you so much for featuring my books and for the great review! I do have my book up for pre-order now on Amazon and Smashwords. Still waiting for it to appear elsewhere. I did a lot of formatting and last minute things over the weekend.

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